TIES DECLARED A HEALTH HAZARD!
Malaysian doctors have declared neckties a health hazard and called on the country’s Health Ministry to stop insisting that physicians wear them.
Citing studies that show ties are unhygienic and can spread infection, the Malaysian Medical Association says they are not often washed and carry germs that can cause pneumonia and blood infections, the Star newspaper says.
“When doctors are doing their clinical rounds, they dangle all over the place,” the paper quotes association president Dr Teoh Siang Chin as saying.
But the Star also quotes a ministry official as saying it needs more proof that neckties are a danger before it relaxes the dress code for doctors in hospitals.
- Reuters
Source: ABC NewsOnline
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Ties are to business people as capes are to super heroes.
FINALLY! Science agrees with what I’ve been claiming since age 6!
I hate ties, always have, always will !
Now there is just one more reason not to wear them…perhaps one more reason to wash them more often, rofl!